Obama Targets Human Trafficking

President Barack Obama on Tuesday said human trafficking is a barbaric “debasement” to humanity as he detailed new steps the U.S. government is taking to fight groups that engage in it.

“I’m talking about the injustice, the outrage of human trafficking, which must be called by its true name: modern slavery,” Mr. Obama said while speaking to the Clinton Global Initiative Tuesday afternoon. “Now I don’t use that word ‘slavery’ lightly. It evokes obviously one of the most painful chapters of our nation’s history. But around the world there’s no denying the awful reality.”